Date:01/04/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/01/stories/2006040119090200.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Magician creates his own Sudoku game

Chitra V. Ramani

Bangalore: He has had over 8,000 stage shows. He is a magician, cinematographer, shadow player, photographer, graphics designer, ventriloquist, fashion designer, manufacturer and exporter of magic items, and an entrepreneur.

Uday Jadugar now has another feather to his cap. He has developed a Sudoku board game. The board game will be released on Saturday at the Indian Institute of World Culture by Vishweshwara Bhat, editor of Vijaya Karnataka.

"I recently visited the international toy festival in Nuremberg, Germany. I saw that there were no Sudoku games. It was then that I struck upon the idea and developed a three-dimensional Sudoku game," he said.

The game has a Sudoku grid and vividly coloured plastic numbers can be placed on the board. "Children will be drawn to the game by the brightly coloured numbers. Each number is coloured differently. Aged persons, who cannot hold a pen or pencil and yet want to solve the puzzle, can do so with ease with this kit," he said.

Mr. Jadugar said that the Sudoku kits were designed, developed and manufactured at his workshop in the city.